Consume the API Proxy in SAP Web IDE

Consume the API Proxy in SAP Web IDE

In this tutorial you will learn how to consume the API Proxy created in the previous steps in SAP Web IDE

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Since SAP Cloud Platform, API Management is one of many services on the SAP Cloud Platform it also offers a deep integration in SAP Web IDE. With this integration you can easily browse and consume services from SAP Cloud Platform, API Management and directly create SAP Fiori like SAPUI5 applications leveraging one of the templates offered in SAP Web IDE.

You will see how a special security token known as the “API Key” or “Application Key” must often be sent as part of the request to invoke an API Proxy. You will see how to identify whether the API Key should be sent as part of the query string or as an HTTP header field, and what variable name should be used to carry that value. Learn more about providing your API key in a request to your API Proxy.

If you receive an error that says request.queryparam.apikey, where do you need to supply the apikey?